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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Story
Tell
Stories
Character
Work
Intimately
Characters

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A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
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If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
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I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
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You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
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My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.
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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
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I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
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When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.
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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
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I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
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But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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